Martin Mull Quotes

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

California is a tragic country … like every Promised Land.

You just want fame so bad. You want success so bad. You just believe anybody who conjures up a pretty contract and they're telling you all these sweet nothings I guess.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.